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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

699: Potluck × TypeScript's Longevity × Canvas-Rendered Apps × Learning Rust × Executing Untrusted JS Code

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions, including: Will TypeScript ever go away? Should I write canvas-rendered web apps? How can I execute untrusted JS code in node? How can I use continuous integration with WordPress? Any advice for learning Rust? Show Notes 00:09 Welcome 01:16 How to ask questions for potluck episodes Ask a question for Syntax potluck episodes 02:19 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 04:34 Will TypeScript ever go away? Migrating millions of lines of code to TypeScript 08:12 What is your opinion on entirely canvas-rendered web apps, such as those built with Flutter? Flutter on the Web Flutter Gallery html2canvas - Screenshots with JavaScript 13:43 Tailscale VPN is cool Tailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure Networks Tunnel | Zero Trust App Connector | Cloudflare 16:36 What is Bandcamp? Bandcamp Stream and listen to music online for free with SoundCloud 18:56 How can I execute untrusted JS code with node? WebAssembly Cloudflare Workers® Deno, The next-generation JavaScript runtime Fastly 23:46 I’d love to get your thoughts on modern devops and continuous integration for building out WordPress websites. Supper Club × Fabian Kägy - Modern WordPress - Blocks, Page builders, Headless, Custom Fields Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling Alpine.js 30:39 How do I orchestrate color adapting icons for use inline and in background images? svg.wesbos.com svg.wesbos.com/cat.svg 35:53 Are there any publicly available libraries for web components? Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components. Open UI 40:20 What’s a good project idea for learning Rust? Tauri Apps 45:17 Do you ever plan to do more podcasts with Scott’s wife or another psychologist / psychiatrist? 47:02 Have you tried MongoDB vector search for AI embeddings? Atlas Vector Search | MongoDB Vector Database for Vector Search | Pinecone Xata 49:44 Syntax highlighting in VS Code Comment tagged templates - Visual Studio Marketplace 52:38 Sick Picks Sick Picks Scott: The Spider-Man of Paris (2023) - IMDb Wes: Amazon.ca : instant read digital thermometer Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Courses Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.0

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.

0:10.7

Welcome to Syntax. Today we have a potluck for you. We're going to be talking about all kinds of stuff including

0:16.0

TypeScripts, future viability, Flutter Parity with the Dom TailScale, which is a pretty cool app for securing remote access,

0:24.1

some WordPress stuff, S. VGs as icons, which is a painful

0:28.7

things, Scott, I just went through, so I'm glad somebody asked that.

0:32.0

Web component libraries, what should I build with Rust

0:35.8

and a couple of database recommendations

0:38.0

for storing AI vector output?

0:40.7

So quite a few good items here my name is West Boss I'm a developer from

0:46.3

Canada with me as always is Scott Tolinsky how you doing Scott.

0:49.6

Hey I've I've been doing but hey, I'm here and I'm ready. I got this vicious stomach bug that has been going around.

1:00.0

But one of the public schools had to close entirely because of how many kids had it.

1:04.7

So it was it felt inevitable. I finally got it. I was the last one in the family to get it.

1:10.1

And yeah, but I'm here today. So that's all that matters how are you doing

1:14.1

well that's good yeah we almost had to cancel it I'm doing pretty good I'm excited to

1:18.8

talk about all these items today that by the way this is the first potluck we're doing since we launched the new website and we like, I don't know if it was the increase in traffic, but we got lots of really good questions. appreciate everybody please keep him coming

1:33.6

and go to syntax out of them there's a button that says what does it say it doesn't

1:37.7

say ask a it says Paula cues that was actually one of my the hardest things

1:42.0

when I was signing the nav I was like all of the episode say

1:45.5

Click the button in the top right hand corner that says ask a potluck hue

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